My friend Meg gave me this book to read.

"Fleeing personal problems, park ranger Anna Pigeon takes a temporary assignment in Dry Tortugas National Park, a grouping of tiny islands seventy miles off Key West--where threats from the distant past collide with danger in the here and now."

This is the first Anna Pigeon novel I've read, and I don't typically read mystery/thrillers. I preferred the 1865 story to the modern story. Anna reads the letters of her great-great-aunt Raffia, a Union officer's wife living in Fort Jefferson at the tail-end of the Civil War. When Samuel Mudd and Samuel Arnold, two men convicted of conspiring to assassinate President Lincoln, are imprisoned at Fort Jefferson, Raffia is embroiled in a mystery of her own. I hadn't known much about the Lincoln conspirators or Fort Jefferson and the Dry Tortugas, so I enjoyed learning more.

Although I liked Anna Pigeon and enjoyed parts of her story, some things drove me crazy! Anna seems to make stupid choices that lead to near-death experiences. Would a park ranger really take that many risks? It seemed forced, to give the plot more suspense.

I plan to release this book.

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